South Wales Police — HMICFRS PEEL Rating
HMICFRS publishes inspection ratings for every UK force. This is the most recently published rating for this force.
Overall rating
adequate
Inspection cycle: 2023-2025
Per-pillar ratings
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- good
- Recording data about crime
- adequate
- Responding to the public
- requires improvement
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- good
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- adequate
- Investigating crime
- adequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- adequate
- Managing offenders and suspects
- adequate
- Leadership and force management
- adequate
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for South Wales Police that carries a graded judgement, showing only the area-level grades exactly as published.
HMICFRS changed its assessment framework over time, so grades are not directly comparable across eras. We group reports by framework era and never infer any trend, improvement or decline between them.
Download this force’s inspection history (CSV)PEEL 2023+ (current framework; scale: Outstanding / Good / Adequate / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2023-10-13force-specific
Report on an inspection visit to police custody suites in South Wales Police
- Custody Services:Requires Improvement
Integrated PEEL 2021–22 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Adequate / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2022-08-11peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of South Wales Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2021-10-13thematic
Joint inspection of child protection arrangements in Neath Port Talbot
- Child Protection:Requires Improvement
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2016 – South Wales Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2016-12-08peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2016 - South Wales Police
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2016-09-22thematic
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit - South Wales Police
- Compliance with Best Use of Stop and Search scheme:Requires Improvement
- 2016-02-11PEEL
Police legitimacy 2015 – South Wales Police
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2011-08-01thematic
South Wales – value for money profile
- Value for Money:Adequate